谚语翻译例子

（八）、以成语（谚语）为主的考点

【测试特点】

成语（谚语）是日常生活中常用的表达形式，它们增强了语言的色彩，丰富了语言的表达力。从2003年起，成语（谚语）成为了高考翻译题的常设考点。成语（谚语）的翻译难度往往较大，其主要原因是中文里的成语（言语）往往在英语里很难找到固定的表达式，有些成语（谚语）在表达形式上还有文言文色彩。这就要求考生在翻译前首先吃透原文中成语（谚语）在上下文中的确切含义，并将其转化成为普通语言的表达方式，如果是文言文色彩的成语（谚语），先要将其转换成现代文的表达形式，在此基础上再把中文成语（言语）灵活地翻译成一一相对应的英语表达形式。有关成语（谚语）的考核在翻译题的4分题中将得到充分体现。

【高考典型试题举例】

1．请尽早做出决定，不然你会错失良机。(or)

___________________________________________________________________ 2．它们应从这件事中吸取教训：玩火者必自焚。(burn)

___________________________________________________________________ 3．众所周知，成功来自勤奋，不努力则一事无成。(without)

_____________________________________________________________________ 4．只要我们齐心协力，就能很快解决这个技术难题。(technical)

_____________________________________________________________________ 5．他在实验中多次失败，但他相信失败是成功之母。(fail)

_____________________________________________________________________ 6．虽然她孤身一人，无亲无故，但邻居们向她伸出了援助之手。(offer)

_____________________________________________________________________ 7．这个地区的经济发展很快，可是某些市民的素质还不尽如人意。(quality)

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1. Please make your decision as soon as possible, or you will miss the golden chance.

2. They should learn a lesson from the incident: those who play with fire will surely get burned.

3. As is known to us all, success results from hard work and nothing can be achieved without efforts.

2.With combined efforts, we will be able to solve the technical

problems soon.

3.Although he had failed many times in the experiments, he believed that failure is the mother of success.

4.Although she lived alone with no relatives and friends, all the neighbors offered her a helping hand.

5.Although the economy in this area is developing rapidly, the qualities of some citizens are far from satisfactory.

如今，互联网购物盛行，网上超市、网上服装店、网上药店等等。现在有一个学生创业项目与开设书店有关，你会选择开设一家网上书店还是实体书店？请给出理由。词数：120-150。

——魏毅晟

Recently I’m taking part in a practical program for us students to start our own business. After careful consideration of basic characteristics of modern society and current book market, I’ve decided that an online book store will be a much better choice than a physical one.

The most distinguished power in this century surely lies in Internet technology, which we can easily tell from the overall popularity of online shopping across the world. Seizing the trading platform the Internet has built to do book sales, I can better cater to the fast-paced life of modern people. Speedy delivery of the ordered books will better satisfy book lovers’ demands, while the convenience online bookstores bring about without them leaving their homes is beyond words.

Some may say the failure to let people have a specific idea of what they are buying is a deadly weakness of online shopping. However, for online bookstores, we can scan the contents of the books and upload them, allowing people to have a preview of the books before they willingly purchase them, thus stimulating my business.

Apart from the potential profits, it shall also be a responsibility for all book sellers to promote the popularity of traditional printed books over e-books in such an age where they’re threatening to take over traditional ways of reading. And only by providing easier access to books can we make it. Online bookstores will see to it.

In a word, an online bookstore means a more satisfactory experience to customers, richer profits to book sellers, and a brighter future to traditional printed books. Therefore, I favor opening an online book store over a physical one.

——胡嘉年

It is the spring of electronic commerce; it was the autumn of physical stores, especially bookstores. While buying online has become a trend because of its one-click convenience, physical bookstores are facing the likelihood of being closed.

If I can start a career by opening a bookstore, my alternative will always be a physical one, for it has the features that an electronic one will never have.

Personally speaking, with the space and peace of a physical bookstore, everyone can lose themselves in books. In addition, chances are that different people with similar taste or interest will be encountered and it will make it possible to make friends with different people just because of books.

Commercially speaking, a physical bookstore provides customers opportunities to buy books after selecting carefully by comparison or previewing the content, and to take them right away with less books you will regret buying. Therefore, it also will eliminate your possible anxiety of waiting for your orders if you shop online.

Socially speaking, physical bookstores play a vital role in promoting academic atmosphere. In Japan, there’s an old street famous for centenary bookstores and its academic atmosphere, which help all nations to form the good habit of reading.

In the Shakespeare & Co. in Paris, a sign reads that, “Passing passengers! You do not know how longingly I look upon you.” Bookstores and readers need each other, and maybe that’s why many physical bookstores are struggling in the “invasion” of online ones. As for me, I’d like to open a brick-and mortar one.